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Bloomberg
10-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Why Armed Forces Can No Longer Ignore Climate Change
The world's militaries are incredibly polluting, collectively accounting for some 5.5% of global emissions. Western economies are now gearing up for a big expansion of their militaries, with members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agreeing to increase defense spending to 5% of their gross domestic product by 2035. That will commit trillions of dollars more to an enormously carbon intensive industry, unless militaries can find a way to reduce their emissions. Those emissions will make the planet hotter, which makes wars deadlier and increases the risks of future conflicts. This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi asks retired Lieutenant General Richard Nugee, author of the UK Ministry of Defence's climate change report, whether this increased spending must come at the expense of climate goals and what militaries are doing on climate change.


Bloomberg
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Zero: Why Militaries Cannot Ignore Climate Change
The world's militaries are incredibly polluting, collectively accounting for some 5.5% of global emissions. Western economies are now gearing up for a big expansion of their militaries, with members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agreeing to increase defense spending to 5% of their gross domestic product by 2035. That will commit trillions of dollars more to an enormously carbon intensive industry, unless militaries can find a way to reduce their emissions. This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi asks retired Lieutenant General Richard Nugee, author of the UK Ministry of Defence's climate change report: Can warfare go green?


Bloomberg
05-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Labor Shortages Are Holding Back Desperately Needed Electrification
By , Olivia Rudgard, and Oscar Boyd Save Western economies need to electrify and fast, but where are all the skilled workers going to come from to install the heat pumps, solar panels and batteries needed? This week on the Zero podcast, Akshat Rathi talks with Olivia Rudgard about the shortage of labor in electrification industries, and why some experts are calling it an 'existential' crisis. This is the second episode in Bottlenecks, a new series exploring the lesser known obstacles standing in the way of our electrified future.